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Cong asks Facebook to probe India team, BJP hits back in hate speech row

Ankhi Das, Facebook India's Public Policy Director, charged in police complaint in Raipur as controversy over WSJ report grows.

Raipur cops file FIR against Facebook's Ankhi Das over social media posts

FIR has been filed against two users of the platform as well for allegedly hurting religious sentiments

Act against those spreading hatred on Facebook, asserts Shiv Sena

The Shiv Sena sought action "irrespective of party affiliations" against those who spread hatred and talk of disintegrating the country on social media platforms like Facebook

BJP attacks Tharoor for summoning Facebook in Parliamentary committee

A BJP MP and member of Parliamentary Standing Committee for Information and Technology (I & T) urged all NDA MPs in the Committee to write a letter to Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla against its chairman Shashi Tharoor in connection with summoning Facebook without taking members in confidence, sources said.The controversy erupted over the issue after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged that the BJP and the RSS control Facebook and WhatsApp in the country.Later, Tharoor said that the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology would certainly wish to hear from Facebook about the media reports."The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology would certainly wish to hear from Facebook about these reports & what they propose to do about hate-speech in India," Tharoor tweeted.Earlier on Monday, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey said that the Chairman of Standing Committee does not have the authority to do anything without discussion of the agenda with its ...

Facebook faces mounting attack from parties; says it prohibits hate speech

The Congress alleged that Facebook's "inaction" against hate content "destabilises democracy" in India and that it was applying different rules for different countries which was "unacceptable"

Facebook employee files police complaint after report on content practices

Ankhi Das, Facebook's top public-policy executive in India, said, some individuals online had 'intentionally vilified' her due to their political affiliations and were engaging in abuse

Facebook's accountability

Platform must make internal reforms to remain relevant

Hate speech content: Delhi Assembly panel to summon Facebook officials

A Delhi Assembly panel on peace and harmony said on Monday that it will summon Facebook officials

Tried to raise content manipulation issue with Facebook, WhatsApp: Congress

The party said that a meeting with Facebook officials took place on May 15, but the social media company did not take any action

Facebook files complaint with Delhi Police after receiving threats

Senior Facebook India executive Ankhi Das has filed a complaint with Delhi Police, alleging that she has been receiving "violent threats to her life", officials said on Monday. The Cyber cell unit is looking into the complaint by Das, who is Facebook's Director, Public Policy, India, South and Central Asia, a senior police official said. Das filed the complaint on Sunday and alleged that several people were issuing "threats, making sexually coloured remarks and defaming her" through online posts. According to the complaint, the threats are in relation to an article dated August 14, 2020 published in the Wall Street Journal. In her complaint, she stated she has been receiving threats ever since. "The content, which even includes my photograph is evidently threatening to my life and body and I fear for my safety as well as that of my family members. The content also maligns my reputation based on a news article and I am subjected to name-calling, cyber bullying and eve-teasing onlin

Can block access to AIMIM supporter if govt orders: Facebook, YouTube

Social media platforms Facebook and YouTube on Monday told the Bombay HC that they would block access of their websites to an AIMIM supporter

We prohibit hate speech that incites violence: Facebook's reply to BJP

"The BJP and the 'wider conservative ecosystem' was not aligned to Facebook as the latter removed 700 pages related to a nationalist narrative in the run-up to the 2019 general elections."

Google slams Australian antitrust law, says it will hit individual creators

Google's YouTube video service allows individuals and companies to create channels featuring advertisements that create revenue for both them and YouTube

Congress alleges Facebook, WhatsApp helping BJP in polls, demands JPC probe

On the basis of a report published in an American newspaper, The Wall Street Journal, Rahul Gandhi has alleged that Facebook and WhatsApp are controlled by BJP and RSS in India

Parliamentary panel plans to summon Facebook in hate-speech case

A report by The Wall Street Journal on Saturday mentioned that Facebook overlooked its hate speech policies

Facebook begins merging Instagram and Messenger chats, says report

Facebook acquired Instagram for $1 billion in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 for $19 billion

Facebook allows small businesses to earn from paid online events

Facebook also testing "paid events with Messenger Rooms" for more personal and interactive gatherings

Facebook could face up to $500 billion in fines in new lawsuit: Report

The lawsuit was filed on Monday in state court in Redwood City, California, DailyMail.com reported on Wednesday

Dismiss Big Tech's challenge to social media order, Trump admin asks court

The lawsuit was brought in June by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), a Washington-based tech group funded by Facebook Inc , Alphabet Inc's Google and Twitter Inc

Instagram faces lawsuit over illegal harvesting of biometric data

In the new lawsuit, filed Monday in state court in Redwood City, California, the company is accused of collecting, storing and profiting from the biometrics of more than 100 million Instagram users